... of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. These rich, privileged men, and future authors of the Declaration of Independence, were confronted with an atmosphere that desperately required the backing of the poor and working-class people in their fight for democracy and ... of the society as a whole overtook that of individualism. This reformist attitude accepted a much larger role of government in solving societies problems, resembling closer to what contemporary Americans understand as liberalism. Society...

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When looking into the messages that contemporary texts of Pop culture suggest, we may find that the message received by the viewer isn't always the message intended by the author. According to Umberto Eco, popular texts can ... even double read by it's receiving audience. An example of this misreading comes from Andy Medhurst, and how he found that the TV show "Batman" had underlying homosexual themes. The authors did not intend for the message to suggest these underlying themes, yet Medhurst received the message from a very different point of view. While Medhurst's opinion of the show may b...

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